ZIP disks gained some popularity in home computer use, and ZIP drives were installed even in some Apple Macintosh computers by manufacturer. They became quite popular 'larger floppy', and even some scientific imaging devices had ZIP drives built-in. Included software offered ease of use - to use ZIP drive in a new computer, for example to show some images or presentation, it was needed only to run one program. Driver installed itself and opened a new drive letter for drive. ZIP drives could be attached to parallel port, SCSI (there were combo versions - SCSI and parallel, depending of cable installed) or IDE (ATAPI - early pure-IDE versions are very rare), and later units had USB capabilities. After USB flash drives came to market, IOMega released 750MB ZIP, but it was too late for it and 750MB ZIP never gained popularity.
Unfortunately ZIP drives were prone to click-of-death failures. These failures (their mechanism is described in FAQ) could cause data and media loss. Branding portable ZIP-like drive 'IOMega Click!' was not a good idea when these problems came out :).
Manufacturer: IOMega | ||||||
Type: Disks and drive | ||||||
Capacity: 100MB, 250MB | ||||||
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To run ZIP drive, you must have ZIP Tools or ZIP Guest driver. IOMega released drivers in packages, so usually ZIP 250 driver package contain older driver for 100, and it may contain even drivers for IDE, ATAPI or parallel port drives. IOMegaware is a big package containing nearly all drivers. Zip Tools is a full suite of software, while ZIP Guest is a simple DOS driver only to run ZIP drive and access files. There are also Win95 versions of Guest tool. Under DOS, you usually run guest with paraleter letter, like: guest letter=z installs ZIP under letter Z. Make sure the letter is not forbidden by LASTDRIVE. Parallel port ZIP won't work with unidirectional ports. More about using ZIP drivers can be read in this site. Unfortunately IOMega can't go along with download links on their own website, they change it frequently and make dead links in support pages, especially for older platforms, so I have to waste my hosting bandwidth and put here essentials which allow to use ZIP with old computers.
There are some alternative drivers such as commercial PalmZip, which can work under DOS with very old computers (8086). | ||||||
Notice difference between ZIP 100 and 250MB in reflective surface (250MB on the right). Record=it was a sound streaming application which allowed to record sound directly to a ZIP disk. Not only IOMega made ZIPs, and many companies made accessories for ZIP drives: media towers or carrying bags which made a normal ZIP drive an easy portable device. ZIP ATAPI version and SCSI (100MB). ZIP power supply and 250MB Plus version (SCSI and parallel port) |
- Dec 31, 2017 For Iomega Zip drives I’ve made 2 types of bootable drive images, both formatted using the Hierarchical File System (HFS): A 100MB OS 6.0.8 Bootable image (zipped, 5MB) for older 68k systems that may only have 1MB of memory installed.
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I come across to these links: Sign 100MB ZIP DRIVE in AMSTRAD PC1512and Using Zip Disks to Transfer Files To/From Old/Modern PCs while going through my retro Computer Accessories collection to sort out my faulty 10MB hard drive and saw my old Iomega Z100P2 with power supply, parallel cable, software and few of Zip 100MB disks, etc with invoice dated Feb 19 2012 for £8.89.So I dig it out my Z100P2 - Malaysia version and giving it a try with using a free demo version of PalmZIP.sys - PALMDEMO.ZIP, connected to the back of my Amstrad PC 1512 as shown picture below.
'Note that there are (at least two) different ZIP100P2 versions and only the older one is compatible with my driver. I'm not sure how to distinguish the driver version, but from my experience, it sems that the ones made in Philippines work well, whereas the ones made in Malaysia are incompatible.'
Finally, Philippines version (DDXZ100P2) including the soft case and other accessories (pictured bottom right) for £25.60 from eBay - 10/12/14 has arrived, I tested it the same way as I did with my other Malaysia version.
And the Seller: mcjibba from eBay tried to ripped me off with selling me his dodgy Iomega Z100P2 with missing supplied complete power cable, no disks, software, nothing, even tried to refused sending me a full refund, but it didn't worked!! Lucky, both eBay and PayPal are on my side and offered me a full refund after I've returned back to him via Recorded delivery on 15/12/2014 16:47, even the Seller has send back his Iomega Z100P2 to me, this time with fully complete power cable.
Unfortunately, it come up with the exactly same problem. So I checked the version of MS-DOS, it was running MS-DOS 3.20 from Western Digital FileCard 30 Perference ISA Card (30MB HardCard) fitted with Western Digital WD93038-X 30MB IDE XT Hard drive internally, supplied with my 2nd customized Amstrad PC 1512 DD (right hand side with PC-MM Monitor showing FastLynx software main screen and Malaysia version Z100P2 under the table) in one of the pics below - has seriously & heavily 'upgraded' to Amstrad PC 1640 spec, I finally realized the problem was from this link: Modern 8 bit IDE Controller for XT
I needed to use MS-DOS 3.30, NOT MS-DOS 3.20!! But I don't have a copy of MS-DOS 3.30 unless I try to use one of Amstrad PPC 640 System Disks (supplied with my Amstrad PPC 640 with built-in 20MB Hard drive) on Amstrad PC 1512. I'll give it a another try with both Malaysia & Philippines versions of Z100P2s using MS-DOS 3.30 on Amstrad PC 1512 this time and see what happens. I think Malaysia version will work with PalmZIP driver, same way as Philippines version, but will wait and see for the outcome after finished experimenting with both Z100P2s versions.
Works perfectly in both DOS 3.20 and GEM 2.0 desktop environments, recognized 3 x 32MB Partitions as follows:
Volume Label | |
D: | 32MB - FAT12 / FAT16 |
Partition 2 | |
F: | 32MB - FAT12 / FAT16 |
To add the icons in Disk Drives: section on GEM desktop as shown on my 1st Amstrad PC 1512 HD10 - upgraded to Amstrad PC 1640 spec (left hand side with PC-CM Monitor & Philippines version Z100P2 under the table) in one of the pics below, I had to add them manually via Install Disk Drive.. from Options menu and then select Save Desktop from Options menu one more time. After that, I can access, copy, delete in any of 3 x 32MB Partitions as normal without any problems and no need to add icons manually ever again.
EvenKlaus Peichl replied via email dated 20/12/14 23:09:10:
'You are really digging out interesting information. I must admit I wasn't aware of the difference between MS-DOS 3.2 and 3.3. But I'm a bit confused. On the page you linked, it reads 'No partitions supported' in MS-DOS 3.2. But if I understand you correctly, you *did* manage using 3 partitions with DOS 3.20 and GEM 2.0?'
As for my very first attempt, after reading the palmzip.txt file, I thought let's try with options, so I put the following line in Config.sys file using simple screen editor RPED:
DEVICE=C:PALMZIPPALMZIP.SYS /LPT1 /B
It didn't let me to access any of the partitions in DOS with Malaysia version after it has been formatted, spending whole day, trying to figure out the problem, then when Philippines version arrived from eBay, same problem. Back to the drawing board and couldn't access to 5.25' disks at all, as all 5.25' disks are damaged including original Amstrad PC 1512 System Disks or 5.25' drives are no longer working.
DRIVPARM /D:0 /F:7
DEVICE=DOSDRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:7
And created a copy of both Amstrad PPC 640 (containing MS-DOS 3.30) and Amstrad PC 1512 System Disks (for MS-DOS, NVR and GEM 2.0) in 3.5' format, trying both of them, still didn't solved the problem, until I give it a try with using only this line:
DEVICE=C:PALMZIPPALMZIP.SYS and it worked, just realized /B option (Force bidirectional mode) is what causing the problem the whole time, so in the end, I just modified the same line as follows:
DEVICE=C:PALMZIPPALMZIP.SYS /LPT1 /T /C to make it as default setting for selection of parallel port where the drive is connected and playing around with GEM 2.0 Desktop as well reading Amstrad PC1512 User Instructions Book 1 to get the additional Disk Drive Icons for 3 x 32MB partitions from Iomega Z100P2 Drive.
As a bonus, I've managed to install separate Internal Iomega Zip 100MB Drive - IDE ATAPI version and got it working for my Daewoo CT5810 PC (Windows 98SE) with TEAC TEAC FD-505 3.5' and 5.25' combination Drive.
- Can be used any Iomega Z100P2 versions - either Malaysia or Philippines (DDXZ100P2) on Amstrad PC 1512
- Works with either MS-DOS 3.20 (supplied with Amstrad PC 1512) or MS-DOS 3.30 (supplied with Amstrad PPC 640)
- Must own a licensed copy of Palmzip.sys Driver with or without printed manual from Klaus Peichl
- Add this line in C:Config.sys file: DEVICE=C:PALMZIPPALMZIP.SYS /LPT1 /T /C
- Had to add 3 x Disk Drives section icons manually on GEM desktop via Install Disk Drive.. from Options menu, as well Save Desktop from Options menu AFTER booting DOS.SYS (F2) first, load up mouse.com file and then loading GEM from DOS Prompt.
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My next Amstrad PC 1512 project will be adding XT-IDE rev.2 ISA 8-bit IBM XT PC AT CF adapter with separate 40-pin IDE Connector (male) CF to IDE Compact Flash Card Adapter - fixed on the case by screw, so that I can insert or remove any 32MB, 256MB, 512MB or 1GB CF Cards easily from the side of Amstrad PC 1512 without opening the whole computer case and covering up the remaining empty slots with one of PCI Metal Blank Plates / PC expansion slot covers.
And Amstrad PC 1512 to Windows based PC communication for transferring data between two computers, using both Internal & External Iomega Zip 100MB Drives as data storage.
Update on Monday 7th March 2016 01:11:
Update on Wednesday 9th March 2016 00:00